Tennis season is firing up again in Colorado. We’ve been out practicing for about 6 weeks now, and the rust is finally letting go. You can follow the team this year at the brand new BTARed.com (complete with RSS and email feeds, and all!).

Man, my life is exciting.

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Not that you could, but don’t forget Columbine. Yes, it’s getting worse. My kid is in school today, and it makes me think.

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I have been using SpinVox for a couple of months now. It’s one of those “never look back” type of services. If you’re an email junkie, and find voice mail messages as annoying as I do, then SpinVox is for you. I’ve also heard Simulscribe is great, but I haven’t tried it. These services both translate your voice mails into email, which is very convenient.

Except that today, as I was processing my Junk Mail folder, I noticed a two week old voice mail message!

My spam filter caught the translated message as SPAM, so I never heard it. I never actually listen to the voice mails anymore, since I know they end up in my inbox anyway.

Obviously, the solution is to remember to whitelist the SpinVox email address.

It’s kinda fun to discover whole new categories of “gotchas” when you use cool new services like these.

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Just came across an audio clip I’ve never posted before. It’s Andrew about six months ago. He was learning all these songs about colors in Kindergarden, and decided to start making up random variants with his own words/thoughts.

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It was nice to recently have a day alone with Delaney. Andrew had gone skiing with his mom. We hung out together outside for hours.

Here you can see a fun little game we played for 15 minutes on the swings. Delaney was “blowing me up.”

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I’m willing to bet that there is not a single one of you who a) blogs and b) does it primarily for the money. Am I right?

I was having a debate with someone recently about the value of easy monetization of blogs. If you could monetize your blog easier, you’d do it of course. But would you choose a blog that makes this easy over one that does not?

What are the factors that go into the selection of a blogging platform for you? For me, it was simple. It had to be a) free, b) well known and c) well liked. That was about it. I used WordPress for those reasons.

Why do you blog? And what factors made you pick your platform?

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I’ve been taking quite a few day trips lately for TechStars interviews. I’ve done NYC, Philly, St. Louis, LA, and Seattle recently. I keep ordering Ginger Ale. Lots of people on the plane order Ginger Ale. I’d say it’s about as popular as Coca Cola or Pepsi on a plane. The stewardess (or whatever the PC term is these days) on the plane told me “yeah, it’s about as popular as Coke”.

Why is that?

In real life, nobody drinks ginger ale. Do you? You can hardly find it.

Is this a marketing issue, or is there something about ginger ale that is particularly appealing at 35,000 feet? Why is ginger ale not huge here on the ground?

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